Kansas 2025-2026 Regular Session

Kansas House Bill HB2694

Introduced
2/4/26  

Caption

Enacting the opioid patients right to know act to require the disclosure of the risks associated with prescribed opioid use.

Impact

The introduction of HB 2694 is poised to impact state laws governing opioid prescriptions significantly. By requiring that prescribers discuss the risks involved before issuing the initial prescriptions, healthcare practices in Kansas may become more patient-focused in terms of treatment planning. This act aims to promote responsible opioid prescribing practices, thereby aligning with state efforts to mitigate the opioid crisis. Ensuring that patients or their guardians are fully informed about the implications of opioid use is likely to lead to better healthcare outcomes and reduce the potential for substance misuse over time.

Summary

House Bill 2694, known as the Opioid Patients Right to Know Act, focuses on enhancing transparency and patient awareness regarding the risks associated with prescribed opioid medications. The bill mandates that healthcare providers discuss the potential dangers of opioid use with patients before prescribing any schedule II controlled substances. This includes discussions on risks of addiction, overdose, interactions with other substances, and alternative treatment options that may be available. Such a measure aims to empower patients by providing them with vital information needed to make informed decisions about their treatment options.

Contention

Notably, there may be contention surrounding this bill as it could impose additional burdens on healthcare providers, who might feel the need to allocate extra time for discussions that could lengthen patient appointments. Some healthcare professionals may argue that the time required to adequately discuss these risks could detract from their ability to see more patients, raising concerns over feasibility in busy clinical settings. Moreover, while the bill seeks to enhance patient awareness, opponents might argue that the language for alternatives and risks could be interpreted in various ways, potentially leading to inconsistencies in how information is conveyed to patients.

Companion Bills

No companion bills found.

Previously Filed As

KS HB2002

Expanding medical assistance eligibility and enacting the cutting healthcare costs for all Kansans act.

KS SB8

Exempting the sale of firearms, firearms accessories, ammunition, firearm safes and firearm safety devices from the retatilers' sales tax.

KS HB2001

Authorizing the secretary of commerce to enter into agreements with major professional sports franchises to establish STAR bond projects for a major professional sports complex, providing for additional revenue sources, expanding the powers and discretion of the secretary and making other changes to the STAR bonds financing act to facilitate such projects, limiting the secretary’s authority to approve such projects to one year unless extended by the legislative coordinating council, authorizing the Kansas development finance authority to issue STAR bonds for such projects, transferring funds under certain circumstances from the state gaming revenues fund to the attracting professional sports to Kansas fund for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025, and, if approved by the legislative coordinating council, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2026.

KS SB6

Providing a sales tax exemption for sales of electricity to residential premises by municipally owned or operated utilities.

KS HB2003

Establishing the veterans' valor property tax relief act providing for an income tax credit or refund for eligible individuals, modifying the definition of household income and increasing the appraised value threshold for eligibility of seniors and disabled veterans related to increased property tax claims and citing the section as the homeowners' property tax freeze program, providing property tax exemptions for certain personal property including watercraft, marine equipment, off-road vehicles, motorized bicycles and certain trailers, excluding internal revenue code section 1031 exchange transactions as indicators of fair market value, providing for certain exclusions from the prohibition of paying taxes under protest after a valuation notice appeal and providing four prior years' values on the annual valuation notice.

KS SB7

Authorizing federally licensed firearm dealers, in addition to county sheriffs, to receive applications for concealed carry licenses and forward such applications to the attorney general, prohibiting sheriffs from assessing any fee related to application services and allowing dealers to assess a fee related to application services not to exceed $20.

KS SCR1604

Proposing to amend section 1 of article 11 of the constitution of the state of Kansas to limit property tax valuation increases for real property and personal property mobile homes.

KS SB4

Requiring all advance voting ballots be returned by 7:00 p.m. on election day.

KS SB2

Eliminating the income limit to qualify for the subtraction modification exempting social security benefits, increasing the income tax credit amount for household and dependent care expenses, establishing the veterans' valor property tax relief act providing for an income tax credit or refund for eligible individuals, citing the increased property tax homestead refund claim section as the homeowners' property tax freeze program, decreasing the normal privilege tax rate, increasing the extent of property tax exemption for residential property from the statewide school levy, decreasing the rate of ad valorem tax imposed by a school district; providing for certain transfers to the state school district finance fund, reducing the state rate of tax on sales of food and food ingredients and modifying the percent credited to the state highway fund from revenue collected.

KS SB1

Modifying income tax rates for individuals, exempting all social security benefits from Kansas income tax, increasing the Kansas standard deduction and the Kansas personal exemption, increasing the income tax credit amount for household and dependent care expenses, decreasing the privilege tax normal tax, excluding internal revenue code section 1031 exchange transactions as indicators of fair market value for property tax valuation purposes, increasing the extent of property tax exemption for residential property from the statewide school levy, providing for certain transfers to the state school district finance fund and abolishing the local ad valorem tax reduction fund and the county and city revenue sharing fund.

Similar Bills

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